Legal battle over Warcraft 'bot'

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Mr Donnelly said the first time had had been aware of potential legal action over his program was when a lawyer from Vivendi games, which publishes Warcraft, and an "unnamed private investigator" appeared at his home. In his legal submission, he detailed: "When they arrived, they presented Donnelly with a copy of a complaint that they indicated would be filed the next day in the US District Court for the Central District of California if Donnelly did not immediately agree to stop selling Glider and return all profits that he made from Glider sales."
"Blizzard's audacious threats offended Donnelly," according to the legal papers.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Legal battle over Warcraft 'bot'

Seems to be a David vs Goliath match that's definitely not going to end good for David.

[Craig]

wasnt there another one of these bots that got shut down a while back? though I can understand, the ToS forbids activities that generate monies not associated with Blizzard's own actions. still, kinda funny...I wonder how they served the legal notice...a WoW character in garb? :-0

[K_Dog]

LOL @ Craig

[Visi0n]

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Originally Posted by Craig

wasnt there another one of these bots that got shut down a while back? though I can understand, the ToS forbids activities that generate monies not associated with Blizzard's own actions. still, kinda funny...I wonder how they served the legal notice...a WoW character in garb? :-0

It was actually a few chinese gold farming sites that got shutdown. The only reason that Blizzard is going after the creator of glider is because of all the people that play WoW. People complain too much and now Blizzard has to do something about it. Blizzard really doesn't care about the bot because when a bot is seen in game it gets banned permanently. Then the person who was running the bot goes out and buys the game again and adds another subscription and the pattern follows. Especially when you get someone who doesn't know what the hell they are doing when they try and run a bot and get screwed over royally.

Blizzard makes money from bots. Lots of it. Blizzard makes over $150 million per month. This lawsuit between the glider owner and Blizzard has gone on for a few years now. With that kind of money, Blizzard could either: 1) Buy the guy out. 2) Have him assassinated. 3) When the case easily. 4) Pay someone

Blizzard scams a lot of people for money and they get away with it. Like I have already stated, if it wasn't for all the World of Warcraft players complaining about the bots, then Blizzard wouldn't do anything about it.

[Craig]

hmmm...interesting vision, I didn't know the whole story.

[Visi0n]

yeah, quite honestly I'd probably would do the same thing Blizzard is doing if I was in their shoes. Thats a lot of money

[Fischig]

personally, I would assassinate him.